A story that sounded too heartless to be true turned out to be just that yesterday -- a lie -- after a good Samaritan who said she had rescued a &to=http:// english.pravda.ru/society/2003/03/20/44723.html' target=_blank>baby thrown from a car admitted she was the baby's mother.
Patricia Pokriots, 38, a bartender who lives in North Lauderdale, told detectives that she concocted the tale to hide her &to=http:// english.pravda.ru/world/2001/03/30/3234.html' target=_blank>pregnancy and the baby's birth Thursday morning in her mother's bathroom. Officials immediately put Pokriots under psychiatric evaluation and an emergency hearing was called, temporarily transferring custody of the infant boy, nicknamed Johny, to a local child welfare agency. The baby, named after Dr. Johny Tryzmel, the lead doctor caring for him at Broward General Hospital, remained in good condition yesterday.
"This is a case of a distraught woman who gave birth and did not want the child," said Broward County Sheriff Ken Jenne. "Why we are all here is because she decided to lie."
Pokriots has not identified the father, informs the Boston Globe.
According to the ABC News, on Thursday afternoon, Pokriots dropped an hour-old baby off at a sheriff's station, telling authorities that she had scooped the boy up after seeing him tossed out of a car onto the grass, Jenne said. Pokriots told investigators she saw a couple arguing in a car, then witnessed the woman throwing the child from the passenger side.
Eventually, investigators found inconsistencies in Pokriots' story, and on Friday she acknowledged that she had lied, the sheriff said.
The 8-pound, 2-ounce boy, whose umbilical cord was still attached when he was brought in, had no injuries.
The sheriff said the woman had kept her pregnancy a secret, and had initially planned to take the baby to authorities. State law allows a mother to abandon a baby at any medical facility or fire station within three days of birth.
But she came up with a cover story after seeing two people argue inside their car, the sheriff said. A boy who was playing nearby did see a couple arguing, but never saw them throw anything out, Jenne said.
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